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If true, then we've gone from being a top 6 program in value to 17th in a matter of two years. Doesnt seem like much good has come from that. It might also mean that our budget got raped the past couple years from the facilities and paying big bucks to our staff

If true, then we've gone from being a top 6 program in value to 17th in a matter of two years. Doesnt seem like much good has come from that. It might also mean that our budget got raped the past couple years from the facilities and paying big bucks to our staff

I thought i remembered us being in the top ten, i know we were right up the beside ND and TExas at one point and #17 is nowhere near where we were.

ND and Texas? I don't think we'll ever be right beside those two programs. Those are marquee collegiate athletic programs. Southern Cal, ND, Texas, FSU, Alabama, LSU, A&M. I'm missing a few, but I'm not sure South Carolina will ever be among those schools. We just don't have the national appeal like those schools do.

Our college football valuations use a weighted scoring system to measure the value created for four key areas. The four components, in order of weight, consist of each team's:
1. value to its university (football profit contributed to academic programming, including football scholarships),
2. value to its athletic department (football profit that supports other athletic initiatives),
3. value to its conference (distribution of bowl game revenue) and
4. value to the surrounding community (estimated spending by visitors on days of home games). Financial data is from the 2011-12 fiscal year, and we standardize revenues and expenses in order to account for differences in each school's method of reporting financial information to the Department of Education.

ND and Texas? I don't think we'll ever be right beside those two programs. Those are marquee collegiate athletic programs. Southern Cal, ND, Texas, FSU, Alabama, LSU, A&M. I'm missing a few, but I'm not sure South Carolina will ever be among those schools. We just don't have the national appeal like those schools do.

Alabama is the funniest one out of your list because they have around the same population as SC, but maybe more of their population is into football than ours. The other ones are in Huge populated states, and LSU is the only big school in its state.

so you can be right about this year's ranking not being good, and about our budget getting raped? I mean, a moment ago you were bemoaning about this stuff being bad news.....now you're wishing that it actually was?

"In fact, the most viewed college football game this season occurred on a Thursday night before the kickoff to the NFL season: South Carolina’s win over Vanderbilt on Aug. 30. That game drew 4.1 million viewers."

Alabama is the funniest one out of your list because they have around the same population as SC, but maybe more of their population is into football than ours. The other ones are in Huge populated states, and LSU is the only big school in its state.

Yea but the program has "14" national titles
There are more Bama fans around the country than Gamecocks.